Most Underrated Black Sabbath Songs

The thing about Black Sabbath, they don't have filler songs. Unlike bands like Iron Maiden or AC/DC, they don't write songs just for the sake of completling an album. Every song is unique and interesting in its own way. I really admire that. So I created a list of songs that never got the fame it deserved throughout the Ozzy era.
The Top Ten
1 Danger Zone

That riff is so good man, easily my favorite sabbath song.

2 Megalomania

This is overall a very well made song. The lyrics tell a story about a man with a mental condition (megalomania) and is struggling over control of his mind. This song goes through a lot of tempo changes, it starts out slow but progresses until it becomes a heavy metal song we all love. Like most of the album, this song was overlooked because of the two albums that were released after it. It's a shame really.

My favourite Sabbath album. Loads of great songs. I don't think ozzy is capable of singing many of them now.

3 Air Dance

One of the best progressive rock/metal riffs of all time! Highly underrated.

Another killer riff backed with great piano.

4 You Won't Change Me

The whole Technical Ecstasy album is underrated!

5 No Stranger to Love - Black Sabbath

This song feels so 80s yet it works.

6 Looking for Today

This is one of those songs that you can't really explain why you like it. It's just really well played and organized. This was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, a very experimental album, so they decided to add a flute. It surprisingly fit well. And that's pretty much all I have to say, it deserves more attention.

Not underrated in the album, but very underrated overall. It has great lyrics, great singing, the riff is pretty good as well as the solo. The flute goes very well with the song. It's a well organized emotional song.

Man that flute works so well with this song

7 Turn Up the Night
8 Hand of Doom

The only track off of Paranoid to make the list, coming as low as number ten too... This is a really quiet and gentle song about heroine, until about halfway through. That's when it picks up and becomes heavy. And that's what I like about this song, Bill Ward softly plays his drums and Geezer Butler does his thing on the bass that sets the perfect atmosphere. This song actually isn't that underrated, but we're still down here and it should be a lot more respected.

No nothing from Paranoid is Underrated

This is top 5 Black Sabbath songs for me

I love the other songs on this list, but Hand of Doom should be number 1.

Othe underrated Sabbath songs are:
St. Vitus' Dance
I
The Devil Cried
Behind the Wall of Sleep
The Thrill of it All

9 TV Crimes
10 The Writ

Sabotage is unfairly obscure. It's my personal favorite with only Symptom of the Universe getting any credit. Everyone was at their finest in this album, ESPECIALLY Ozzy Osbourne. His vocals were so powerful and dominant in his later years of Sabbath. This song is a prime example! You can feel the emotion in his voice, it's very strong. There's plenty of tempo and riff changes throughout the song that really added to the mood. Oh, and there isn't a guitar solo either. Usually that would be regarded as a bad thing (St. Anger... ), but the song still really holds up. There's just so much things going on throughout the track that it isn't even necessary! This song is outrageously underrated, they haven't even played it live! If you haven't heard this song yet, please, give it a try.

The Contenders
11 Sabbra Cadabra

Experimental? Well, yeah... Does that make it a bad thing? Absolutely not! Sabbra Cadabra was released on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, so what can you expect? The band was trying new things. This song uses something called a moog synthesizer which distorts the guitar to make this funky-sounding noise. It worked well. They were being subtle with it and not using it too frequently. It's also interesting to note that Metallica covered this song and mixed it with A National Acrobat. They chose a good song to cover.

12 Rusty Angels

Great riff on a hated album. I always like Forbidden the best out of the 90s albums.

13 Warning

Yes, I know. It's a cover. I'm well aware of that. But that doesn't stop Sabbath from adding their own style into the song. I love the chorus of this better with Ozzy's vocals, it's just more suiting. But the REAL interesting part of this track is the instrumental bridge they added in the middle. Tony Iommi just goes crazy during that part! It doesn't really even sound like it's written, it's like Tony just decided to go jamming and that's what it ended up as. It's very impressive and I love every moment of it.

This is a cover song, kind of ridiculous when there are so many underrated Sabbath songs which they actually wrote THEMSELVES.

This. I absolutely love this song! It really baffles me how it is never mentioned anywhere...

14 Headless Cross

Just Iommi at his best

15 Killing Yourself to Live

This to me was the best song on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath but its not underrated its more Overlooked because of the Title track

Agreed. This is the best song off Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

This song's riff is amazing, truly an underrated song

Its already on the list

16 Anno Mundi

This is a masterpiece! So Criminally underrated... sadly

Honestly just a great song. Tyr as a whole is overlooked.

17 Never Say Die

This is a really up-beat and peppy song, I can just imagine how fun it would be to hear it live. This album was Black Sabbath's lowest point before Ozzy left. Apparently, the sorta shadows the album. But it really isn't that bad of an album, especially the song. This is also Ozzy's last studio album before he quit... Until 13 that still hasn't been released.

The only song from thiis album I have heard and probally the only one I'll like

18 After Forever

This song is about what will happen after death, whether you're religious or not. I really like the riff in this song. That was one of Black Sabbath's biggest talents, writing riffs. They've made so much influential riffs that formed metal, but I'm preaching to the choir. Overall, this is a nice piece of art that Sabbath made, I like it.

19 Zero the Hero

One of the best after Ozzy songs

20 Tomorrow's Dream

There's a certain part of this song that I REALLY like. There's guitar riff somewhere around 0:40 that I simply adore. The chorus could be better though, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest because that riff really gets to me... So this song deserves a place on this list.

21 Dirty Women

This song is played often at concerts, but still isn't regarded as popular as others among fans. I think they only play this song live so women will flash their boobs in the audience, Tony you dog! But it's a very neat song and it grew on me. There's a couple of songs that I really like that I never really used to. Supernaut, A National Acrobat, and this have in particular.

22 Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes
23 Trashed
24 Hot Line

Honestly Ian Gillan in Black Sabbath is so strange... but this time is nice.

25 Lord of This World
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